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«The next phase of the £1 billion regeneration of 42-acres of Liverpool city centre opens today. This key milestone opens up nearly one million square feet of retail space and 2500 car parking spaces ahead of schedule, reconnecting the city's existing shopping area with its historic waterfront and new arena and convention centre. The grand opening of Liverpool ONE will take place on 30 September, including the balance of the 1.4 million sq ft of retail space, a multiplex cinema, restaurant areas, cafes and bars, office space and a revitalised five-acre park. The retail units opening in the first phase are on the family-orientated South John Street, anchored by Debenhams, and the Western Side of the John Lewis anchored Paradise Street, the development’s urban-fashion district.
Liverpool ONE is the most important development in Liverpool’s city centre for more than 40 years. It will deliver a shopping, residential and leisure environment that few other cities can match.
Covering 42 acres at the heart of the city, Liverpool ONE is a £1 billion, entirely private investment, providing 26 new and 10 refurbished buildings, individually designed by 26 firms of architects.
Liverpool ONE will contain 160 shops totalling 1.4 million square feet of retail space, a 14-screen multiplex cinema, 230,000 square feet of restaurants, cafés and bars, together with more than 600 new apartments, two hotels, offices, a reconstructed five acre park, and new public transport interchange.
The development will open in stages. The first, on 29 May, includes a John Lewis store, a Debenhams, smaller shops and two principal streets that will re-connect the city centre with the waterfront for the summer of Capital of Culture year. This releases 80 retail units covering almost 1million sq ft. Further streets and the park will open on 30 September, with apartments and hotels soon after.
Liverpool ONE responds to consumer and occupier demand after years of virtually no commercial investment in the city centre. Grosvenor’s commitment to underwrite and deliver this huge development has encouraged other companies and funds to invest in Liverpool. It is creating jobs and activity and a greatly improved environment; and is one of the principal foundations of the renewed confidence and optimism in the city.
Today’s developers and investors in Liverpool and their public sector partners have found new ways to work together and new ideas that now put Liverpool at the forefront of urban regeneration. The success of the rejuvenated City Centre is already beginning to create benefits for the Liverpool City Region as a whole.
Paradise Street
Paradise Street is designed to be a chic European-style boulevard with particular appeal to fashion-conscious younger shoppers. A primary shopping and leisure street, its grand buildings are on a busy, vibrant street, which features dramatic, double, and in some cases, triple height shopfronts.
Paradise Street includes the new 240,000 sq ft John Lewis department store and flagship shops for other major high street names. From 30 September there will also be a 14-screen Odeon multiplex cinema, restaurants, pavement cafés, bars, and apartments above the street. Paradise Street will once again be the focus for routes from neighbouring parts of the city.
Architects include BDP (London), Allies + Morrison, John McAslan, Glenn Howells and Haworth Tompkins.
South John Street
South John Street is a family–orientated, shopping, eating, and leisure destination. A galleried, pedestrian street that consists of unusual, dramatic, large scale buildings with a distinctly modern feel.
South John Street includes the new 185,000 sq ft Debenhams department store, complemented by well-known names selling music, books, and children’s goods, as well as fashion and accessories. Shopping in South John Street is on two levels and from September there will be leisure facilities and the recreated Chavasse Park above it, looking out to the waterfront.
Architects include Groupe Six and BDP (Liverpool)». (Stralcio dal CS della Società)
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